1140 Final Exam Take Home Section: 80 Points Due: Tuesday, May 5TH *** in D2L Assignments by 10:00 AM Learning Outcomes: This final exam addresses all of the outcomes of the class: The goals of this course include the following: • Demonstrate familiarity with the development of and diversity within the literary genres • Use foundational concepts (theme, metaphor, plot, character, etc.) to demonstrate an understanding of how texts function • Apply basic critical theories to demonstrate a competent understanding of literary texts • Describe the development of literature within its larger cultural context, showing how concerns in literature reflect the changes, patterns and values of the culture Helpful Documents to Consult: For guidance on how to write a literary analysis, please consult the document “Writing Essay Exams and Conventions of Literary Analysis” (in the unit “Resources for Writing, Documentation, and Research”). To see an example of an essay exam, please consult the document “Example Student Exam” (in the unit “Example Student Projects and Exams”). Use of Sources: You have the option to use any of the following materials to aid you with this exam: course books, class notes, and information on our D2L course site. You are not allowed to use outside sources (websites, blogs, or the library databases). Any exam that contains information from outside sources will be considered plagiarism and will result in failing grade (zero). Choose one of the following questions and using at least 4 works (two of which must be from the second half of the semester) we’ve read write a well-detailed, thoughtful analysis. Be sure to use specific quotes from the works and have a clear introduction with a thesis statement. Do not provide plot summaries. Your essay should be roughly 5-7 typed double-spaced typed pages long. 1. Contemporary writer Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things is often called a “political writer.” Her response to that accusation is that “The theme of much of what I write, fiction as well as nonfiction, is the relationship between power and powerlessness and the endless, circular conflict they're engaged in.. . .Though it might appear otherwise, my writing is not really about nations and histories; it's about power. About the paranoia and ruthlessness of power. About the physics of power. I believe that the accumulation of vast unfettered power by a State or a country, a corporation or an institution - or even an individual, a spouse, a friend, a sibling -regardless of ideology, results in excesses such as the ones I will recount here.” To what extent can some of the works we’ve read in this class be considered “political” under Roy’s definition? Use at least four works that explore the “physics of power,” and discuss the consequences of such a relationship. 2. Toni Morrison, author of the short story “Recitatif,” writes, “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” Consider 4 works we’ve studied about strange or odd characters or situations and explain how the writers have made those characters familiar/knowable to readers. Or conversely, consider 4 works where writers have taken ordinary characters and/or ordinary circumstances and made them strange or mysterious or odd. Explain how these particular authors accomplished this feat. What techniques did they use? What choices did they make in their depictions of these characters and situations? Also the works we did for this semester are; First half of the semester Please choose two of these Raymond Carver’s - “Cathedral” Tillie Olsen’s- “I Stand Here Ironing” Baldwin’s ”Sonny’s Blues” Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” Edwidge Danticat’s “A Wall of Fire Rising” Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine” Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake SECOND HALF OF THE SEMESTER Please choose two of these Susan Glaspell’s -Trifles Alison Bechdel- Fun Home Shakespeare- Macbeth Note- please chooses two from each section above to answer the main question number 2.
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